All posts for the month September, 2010

Robert Barclay is an associate of The Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain (ARPS).Robert has been a professional photographer for over 39 years spanning a career at Fleet Street as a staff photographer with The Press Association, Daily Telegraph and 19 years with the Express Newspapers.

Robert spent the evening talking about studio lighting and how to take interesting family pictures.

It was refreshing when he stated that you do not need lots of expensive kit to produce excellent images , as he has.

The following images were taken on a day trip to Brighton. I decided to try and capture the faces of people on the merry go round as it span round. The results, in my view were poor and I will have to improve to reach the required standard.

Later in the day I visited Box Hill, in Surrey again and tried to capture a number of motorcycles as they rode passed me, so at high speeds. The results were better but improvement still need to be made

On the way home from work I came across the scene of a traffic accident in Dorking. The Police Officers said the victim was not seriously injured (subsequently released from hospital) so I thought it would be a good exercise to capture some images.

It did worry me a little that I was attempting to capture images of an event that had resulted in another person suffering injuries. I wonder if Press Photographers feel the same way? Do they ever think about putting the camera down and helping the person or would they always get the shot first?

In this Image I focused on the Police vehicle vehicle as I wanted to blur the registration numbers of the cars in the background and the faces of the Police Officers.

In this image I focused on the bicycle, but I kept the “Police Tape” running across the frame. Later I focused on the “Police Tape” to see what the difference would be.